I've never heard that Polaris is a binary star - the star catalog I consulted didn't mention that. Alpha Centauri, our near neighbor, is actually a trinary star system (Alpha, Beta and Proxima Centauri), so maybe thatwas the system you were thinking of?
On binary stars supporting habitable planets - I've read research that it is possible for a planet to have a stable orbit in the "liquid water zone" in a binary system as long as the primary is a relatively large star and the secondary is a very small star quite far away (like much further away than Pluto is from our sun). The gravitational influence of the the secondary is then small enough to not substantially perturb the planetary orbit. Some very cool computer simulations were done showing that a planet could have a stable orbit over the hundreds of millions or even billions of years needed to create life (unless, of course, you go with the Kentucky museum that shows dinosaurs and people in picture together and goes with the Biblical 5000 or so years...). The article did say that this would probably be a fairly unlikely configuration, however, and therefore multi-star systems were unlikely to have planets suitable for life as we currently know it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 6/1/05 2:57 PM, gullible fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > And which one? It's a binary star. > > Could habitable planets orbit a binary star? Seems to me their orbits would > be too erratic to make climates survivable. But maybe these are subtle > sidhas who don't care about gross stuff like weather. > > > > --- Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> on 6/1/05 2:11 PM, lupidus108 at > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >>> (Though he > >>> has indicated that 1000 Siddhas are waiting on the > >> Polar Star for the > >>> right time to come to earth.) > >> > >> When and where and in what context did he say this? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
